Thread Subject: Re: Merging Web and Software and what is Web content?

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From: William Loughborough
Date: Wed, Jul 11 2007 1:40 PM

Peter Korn wrote:
There is a lot of content that is 100% non-interactive (you don't
interact with a baseball show - yelling out loud at the bad calls by the
umpire doesn't count), though many content viewers/players are
interactive (you can change channels, change the volume, etc.).

In fact since we are dealing with E/IT and the example is both, I would
point out that aside from the fact that your viewing is indirectly
monitored (Nielsen surveys and voting for stuff happening in the
program) and you already get to choose to have another language and
captioning, etc. the ability to make such materials accessible in many
ways will depend on what we include.

How far to carry this is another matter having to do with notions of
"private" communications, etc. but on the whole, at some level it's ALL
content/software.

So I don't accept something as "non-interactive" simply because it's not
all that interactive today.

Love.

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